<p>The Houma Police Department has received regular reports of sightings in Houma of an escaped inmate from the state women's prison in St. Gabriel, officers said.</p><p>However, none of the reports have turned up any sign of Keana Barnes, who was serving a 25-year sentence for manslaughter, said Lt. Dana Coleman.</p><p>Barnes has been seen multiple times in the New Orleans area, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections reported. She escaped Jan. 1.</p><p>Last week, police received a report that Barnes was sighted on Downtown Court in Houma and they searched two homes where people were living, but police did not find Barnes, Coleman said.</p><p>The report caught police's attention because a woman lived on that street who had served time with Barnes in St. Gabriel, Coleman said.</p><p>“We receive at least two to three calls a day” about people seeing Barnes, and police investigate each, Coleman said.</p>